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Nakayama's Lemma on $\textbf{Act}-S$

Group Theory 2014-01-13 v1

Abstract

A crucial lemma on module theory is Nakayama's lemma \cite{AF}. In this article, we shall investigate some forms of Nakayama's lemma in the category of right acts over a given monoid SS with identity 1. More precisely, among other things, we show that equality AI=AAI=A for some proper ideal II of SS implies A={θ}A=\{\theta\}, when AA is a finitely generated quasi-strongly faithful SS-act with unique zero element θ\theta and SS is a monoid in which its unique maximal right ideal M\mathfrak{M} is two-sided. Furthermore, as an application of Nakayama's lemma we prove Krull intersection theorem for SS-acts. Finally, as a consequence, we shall see a homological classification form of this lemma, i.e, we prove if SS is a commutative monoid then every projective SS-act is free if and only if E(S)={1}E(S)=\{1\}, which E(S)E(S) is the set of all idempotents of SS.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1401.2192,
  title  = {Nakayama's Lemma on $\textbf{Act}-S$},
  author = {Kamal Ahmadi and Ali Madanshekaf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.2192},
  year   = {2014}
}
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